Job overview
If you are keen to further develop your skills learnt as a junior pharmacist, we may have the perfect opportunity for you to join our team of rotational specialist pharmacists. By applying for this job you will have the opportunity to join the progressive and pioneering pharmacy department at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for intuitive, enthusiastic and versatile pharmacists to join our diverse and inclusive team.
The OUH pharmacy specialist rotational programme offers you:
• Experience across multiple specialities and hospital sites, allowing you to develop a breadth of experience for your portfolio, with the opportunity to complete twelve-month rotations in areas such as:
emergency and acute general medicine, gastroenterology, cardiology, specialist medicine, renal transplant, surgery, neurosciences, renal, general surgery, respiratory/AMS, rheumatology/orthopaedics and virtual wards.
• The opportunity to undertake prescribing courses dependent on rotation undertaken and prior completion of a postgraduate clinical diploma.
• The chance to take on leadership/mentoring responsibilities such as trainee pharmacist tutor or postgraduate clinical pharmacy tutor.
Each rotation is designed to give you the required skills to develop your clinical and non-clinical pharmacy skills within the RPS Advanced Pharmacist Framework.
Interviews likely to be weeks after closing
Main duties of the job
Building on your foundation knowledge, experience and skills, you will be working in a dynamic and rewarding setting to deliver compassionate excellence. As a specialist pharmacist you will grow in all four pillars of practice in order to prepare for an advanced practice role.
In this post, you will have -month rotations across a range of clinical areas. The one year rotation allows you ample opportunity to be become integrated in each new clinical area and expand your expertise and skillset, to mentor others, be involved in service development or research and to put your management and leadership skills into action in a supportive setting. The post holders should ensure timely, effective, two-way exchange of information between the pharmacy team and the clinical area as well as maintaining high standards of medicines management. Each rotation has a specific set of objectives which will be shared prior to annual rotation selection and agreed at the start of the rotation.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .